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  1. Re:Interesting quote in article on How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    O is the one that has kept the CCDev going while the GOP wanted it dead. GOP did not want new space going, ESP. SPACEX.
    OTOH, O has kept the fundings flowing to CCDev, though it has been a battle all the way. Once we have human flight going, and allow new space to compete, we will see space costs plummet. This will allow us to not only do human flights, but also a lot more automated flights further in the solar system.

  2. Both sides go too far on 'Fourth Amendment Caucus' Aims To Fight Government Surveillance (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    First, we have the far right that wants to give the feds TOTAL ACCESS TO EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE, all without a warrent.
    Yeah, they claim otherwise, but the fact is, that the far right did the push for the PAT act, and continue to do so today. In addition, they are the ones that removed the hard core oversight of the NSA under W, that allowed them to run amok.
    Then we have the far left. They want to deny EVERYTHING to the gov. However, they ignore the fact that their job is to protect America, and have more enemies today than ever before. Of course, when we are attacked, they can not wrap themselves tightly enough in the same flag as the far right.

    What is needed is a SANE approach to this. : 1) they should have access to the same clear text data that our enemies have. It makes little sense that China, North Korea, Iran, AQ, and even ISIS can go to a web site and pull up data and make use of it, while we require our own intelligence world to get a warrant. That is INSANE.
    2) if clear-text data is sent over open protocols, or easily broken protocols, then again, our intel world should have unwarranted access.
    3) if a site is crackable, and they have data such as clear text email, then it WILL be easily accessible to China, etc. Again, it is insane that we would deny our intel world access to same.
    4) OTOH, if data is encrypted that indicates that security IS an issue. For example, if I send email and it is encrypted and I send it over smtps so that it is sent double encrypted, that means that security is important that China, et. al, would have difficulty getting to it. At that point, it makes sense for a warrant to be required to decrypt the data.

    Now, the above should ONLY be for NSA and chasing terrorists. If it is the FBI, or it is going after drugs, or simple murder, etc. then it should be quite limited in scope.
    They obviously should have #1. It is no different than spotting a body in a car. The police can go ahead and use it as evidence.
    If web stuff or email, etc is all sent clear text, then it should be considered open to the FBI, police, etc.
    Again, this is no different than having something in the back of truck. If you can see it without having to decrypt, etc, then it should be fair game.
    So, where does it stop? The FBI/Police should not have the right to crack a system without a warrant. They should also not have the right to grab data off the wire that is encrypted and decrypt it.

  3. totally agree, BUT, how about 'eternal soul'? on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I wonder how many would wonder about clicking if they had to give up their 'eternal soul' to the 'creator of this document'? Something that is nebulous going to some unknown. It might offer up interesting comments.

  4. how about asking for eternal soul? on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I wonder what ppl would do, if they were required to give up all rights to their eternal soul to the 'creator of document'? That might actually make some wonder what is going on. Nobody will believe that they have to give up their first born.

  5. first off, show me the bills in which Obama runs up massive spending. You can not do it.
    Secondly, China owns less than 1.4T and it continues to drop.
    As to your racists rant, I think that you must have misposted. I believe that you wanted the KKK or NAZI pages that you had up.

  6. china finances so little of our debt that it is a joke.

  7. Seriously, china is in a cold war with the west. So, they are going to do everything that we allow them to do, though I am not certain why we allow this.
    BUT, it is not much different than what is happening with India. We see all of these backdoors going into our corporate software which is then traced to 'Russia', and nearly all of these have 2 things in common. The first is that they run Windows, and the Second is that within the previous 2 years, normally 1, the company outsourced to India. Not any other nation, just India. And why does this matter? Because the average Indian IT worker makes less than $10,000. It should not be surprising then that backdoors come in from India, which are then removed by Russians and replaced with different ones.
    Just 20-30 years ago, it was well known that any massive pay difference would lead to ppl being bought. And Russia remains good friends with India and can travel freely over there (and they do). So, America not only allows numerous nations to manipulate and dump on their markets, but then also, we KNOWINGLY allow attacks from both China AND India.

  8. not really. By buying from China, you will ALWAYS pay more than what China will. Not just for shipping, but CHina also puts an EXPORT tariffs on these, and will make sure that the steel sold in China is a fraction of the price elsewhere. That means that you can not compete directly with China, UNLESS you control the vertical manufacturing.

  9. Re:Dear Brain Master on Honda Unveils First Hybrid Motor Without Heavy Rare Earth Metals (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it is not a big deal to mine them. The problem is, that China is manipulating this market in a HUGE way. Moly Corp in America has a clean means of mining. BUT, when they invested loads of money into it, then China dumped REE on the market and plummetted the price. Sadly, the west allowed it. And Moly Corp booted the old CEO, and brought in a Canadian who was very friendly with China. So, he shut down EVERYTHING in the west and pushed it all to CHina. Now, they are back in control, while this Canadian CEO is worth 100s' of millions over this BS.

  10. In Japan, they block CHinese steel, because China dumps on their markets and Japan will not allow that, like America does.
    SO, their steel comes from Japan, while their IRON comes from Australia and South America.

  11. they could switch to AC motors and improve things on Honda Unveils First Hybrid Motor Without Heavy Rare Earth Metals (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, by going to an AC motor, as opposed to DC, they could improve their efficiency, lower costs, and increase torque.

  12. Re:since "autopilot" really isn't one.. on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL.
    Are you talking about this?
    Even here, it was 1 person that suggested that and apparently shot down.
    Probably the best line in this is to move as quickly as possible to level 4 autonomy, which is what Telsa is doing.
    And the fact that with some 50,000 ppl driving this daily, and only having 1 fatality in 7 months of testing this shows that it is already safer than average and that obviously their training is doing the job.

  13. Re:saved lives on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Highways of ALL TYPES are the most DANGEROUS roads. Why? Because cars are doing 60-100 MPH. This is where a small mistake leads to lost lives.
    NHTSA has shown the stats on this and the real dangerous roads, is highways, not cities.
    And yes, rural highways have the highest number of fatalities. BUT, even city based highways, freeways, whatever you wish to call them, still have high fatalities.

  14. Re: saved lives on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it does not. The most dangerous are highways, and it works there. In addition, I have taken it on side roads to the highways and it runs fine there. Likewise, I took it up a mountain side up to 14,000 ' and it worked on parts of that. It MIGHT have worked on all of it, but I was not willing to fully test it.

  15. Re:since "autopilot" really isn't one.. on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    all new tesla owners GET a couple of hours of training.
    And how exactly would training down the road help?

    You got it wrong when you kept claiming that city roads are much more dangerous than highways when it came to fatalities.
    Now, you are claiming that Canada is going to impose on Tesla what they already do, as well as force them to offer up yearly training when nothing has changed?>

    So, who do you work for?

  16. Re:Why would autopilot veer? on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    wow. The fact that you were modded as troll pretty much means that we have koch bros astroturfing this site.
    You had a posting that was SPOT ON. It is obvious that there is a full on assault on all of Musk's businesses.
    Thankfully, customers are ignoring the BS that is going on and focusing instead on where the value is.

  17. Re:Lost focus on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    actually, you are wrong. Ppl ARE buying them for their AP. Lots of other Owners are very excited about this. My wife, who owns a 2013, now wants to trade it for a new one that has AP. I am having her wait for another year or so and then get an X. But, I have talked to 3 ppl that have traded up SPECIFICALLY to get the AP.

  18. Re:saved lives on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    there has been only 1 fatality. As such, I am sure that they are around 150 million miles of some of the most dangerous roads. So, yeah, very safe.

  19. Re:Just one fatality on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    good points, but with 1 issue. AP works pretty decently once a car has gone over the lane. I was impressed when I tried it on a side road 3x. In the first case, my hands was about 1/2" away and to be honest, I was pretty nervous. It was moving from side to side, which included a curve and just minor fall off the edge (it was only 20-30''). During the curve, other cars were coming and I took back control for a bit and then reverted back to AP. This went on for a couple of miles before hitting the next real intersection, at which point, I took over.
    The second time, I allowed it to go through the curve fully. What I noticed is that on the regular road section in which the AP had control in drive 1, it had improved IMMENSELY. The curve still bugged me.
    The 3rd time was a charm. From 1 road to the next, it followed the lane and was not moving back-forth. It was obviously trained for this road.

    Since this was a Tesla loaner (ours was in service and is a 2013), this was pretty exciting to see and try. The only other place that I tried it was on the way up to mount evans. I was obviously the first on that road to run AP, and do not recommend getting the least bit comfortable until multiple runs have been done it all the way (I was not brave enough to do this since I had my family with me; only in a small amount of that road is it covered, though it took the hairpins nicely). There are places where you go down 500-700'. IOW, even in a tesla, you will die on that.

  20. Re:Just one fatality on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    because Tesla's AP is nothing like Porsche's cruise control.
    In fact, Tesla is so far ahead of Porsche, it would be like comparing Porsche's lane assist, safety features and cruise control, vs. an old style cruise control.

  21. Re:Disinformation, no thanks on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    I think by start of trip, they mean that when they got on highway. However, lets wait and see.
    As it is, I am more concerned about /. and the constant lies that we see here about Tesla, SpaceX, and Solar City (which is what your last sentence also says).
    Off hand, I would say that Koch bros money is hard at work creating FUD.

  22. only 1 fatality and so far, only 1 crash with AP on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    First and foremost, On the Florida crash had a fatality.
    However, it is still thought that Pennsylvania's crash did NOT involve AP, and Montana is still un-verified (though, I would expect this one to have AP since it had been running for some time). IOW, at this time, it is 1 crash using AP, and only 1 fatality.

    So, this brings up the question of why did an AC submit this story which has multiple false statements, and why is /. not checking validity? In addition, why has the header NOT been updated with correct information?
    Shades of the Koch bros here.

  23. Re:Putin rebuilding the Soviet Union on Russian Leader Putin Signs Controversial 'Big Brother' Law (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and yet, those to the west do NOT hate them, esp the western Europeans. They were happy to live in peace and work together. The problems came about when Russia decided to start invading small eastern European nations and proving that they are not interested in peace, but in having others to blame.
    And all of those eastern European nations KNOWS that Russia has invaded many many more nations, than they have been invaded.

  24. snowden better learn to shut up on Russian Leader Putin Signs Controversial 'Big Brother' Law (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, Snowden fled to nations that remain effectively under totalitarian rules. His now speaking up against this law is going to get himself killed.

  25. Re: On the contrary on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it does not have to be designed to ensure that the driver is engaged. Hell, we do nothing in our average car to stop drunks, texting, or calling. And each of those are very dangerous.